Students from our department’s course are working with the Westboro community to promote pollinator gardens, aiming to enhance environmental awareness and inspire residents to create their own gardens. This initiative, highlighted in the Kitchissippi Times, reflects our students’ dedication to promoting environmental education and strengthening community. Read more about their work .

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In this semester’s SOCI 1002 C taught by Prof. Tonya Davidson, students were tasked with doing sociological research on a social problem on campus, and then developing a feasible intervention to address the problem.

Each tutorial chose the best pitch from their section to be presented in front of the full class.

On April 3rd, we held a “Sociology in Action” ideas competition that was evaluated by a panel of judges: Bernhard Leistle (Chair, Sociology and Anthropology), Laura Storey (Director, Housing and Residence Life), and Meghan Major (Office of Quality Initiatives). The panel thoughtfully adjudicated 12 of the best ideas from the class. Pitches included ideas on how to socially invigorate the quad, a system to quickly report tunnel maintenance issues, and interventions to improve student health in residence.

The judges gave the prize of winning pitch to the team of Avery Craig, Caylum O’Brien, James Hill-Kent, Michael McLaughlin, and Olivia Tousignant. This team’s pitch, titled “�Ӱ�ԭ�� Computer Collection”, proposes a student club to address the environmental issue of e-waste, and the social problem of the digital divide (inequitable access to necessary technology). The �Ӱ�ԭ�� Computer Collection would accept donated old computers, wipe the computers, install basic operating systems, and give the computers to students needing computers.

Congratulations to the winning team! And, many thanks to the judges for their participation (and prizes!).

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Dr. Kathleen Moss worked on an incredible collaborative project last year with Grade 10 students at Glebe Collegiate Institute. The OCDSB has published an article detailing this project, and the impacts that it has had on their students.

You can read the OCDSB article in it’s entirety , and the CBC article .

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Sociology of the Family:
WWI, Families, Race, Class, Gender, & Pedagogy

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As of fall 2023, The Department of Sociology and Anthropology will be offering a new graduate diploma program.

The Graduate Diploma in Social Statistics and Data Analysis (SSDA GDip) will provide education and training in quantitative social research methods and analysis of survey (or similar) data, with a focus on the applied (the “how”) aspects of statistics and less so on the mathematical (the “why”) ones.

For more information on this upcoming program, please .

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Social Statistics and Data Analysis appeared first on Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

This syllabus has been designed as a resource for any faculty teaching sociology courses at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. Designed around the core topics taught in SOCI 1001: Introduction to Sociology I and SOCI 1002: Introduction to Sociology II, each week offers suggestions of the work of a �Ӱ�ԭ�� sociology instructor (including faculty, contract instructors, and cross-listed faculty).

This syllabus is the result of a students-as-partners project. Olivia Little (3rd year sociology major, and PASSfacilitator of SOCI 1001/1002), created this document under the supervision of Tonya Davidson (�Ӱ�ԭ�� sociology faculty).

We hope you find this useful for incorporating some of the great work of your colleagues into your course design.

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�Ӱ�ԭ��’s new Minor in Community Engagement got off to a great start when the second-year foundations course (SOCI/ANTH 2180) partnered with Community Associations for Environmental Sustainability (CAFES) in Fall 2021. Student projects focused on the City’s development of the 15-minute neighbourhood concept. You can see the results of their efforts , as well as an article about the project in the Sandy Hill community newspaper, , on page 11. Instructor Dr. Deborah Conners is planning a second project with CAFES for Fall 2022, which will focus on increasing diversity in community association membership.

Some images from their project are included below:

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Canada’s WW1 Nursing Sisters: Profiles from the frontlines

SOCI 2043B: Sociology of the Family, Winter 2022

Instructor: Dr. Kathleen Moss

This course introduces students to diverse forms of family and kinship ties in Canada and the theoretical background necessary for analyzing them sociologically. We discuss the changing nature of families which impact past and present issues affecting family life. It is here, that the second half of the course is devoted to exploring the socio-historical family life of nurses serving in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC).

Using official CAMC nursing files and a database created specifically for entering the nurse profile information, students are able to populate the database and capturing the untold stories of nurses who served in CAMC and their family life in WW1. The historical information explored through primary evidence collecting will assist historians interested in Canadian nursing profiles from WW1.

This archival project is in collaboration with community partner, Big Ideas Group Consulting, and course support and content expertise from Dr. Dominique Marshall, Department of History at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, Dr. Lydia Wytenbroek from University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing, and Jessica McIntyre (Department Head of World Studies and Social Science at Glebe Collegiate Institute) and her grade 10 history class. Throughout the project, students have been uncovering similarities and differences in family relations and delving into the socio-economic, cultural, race, gender and epidemic issues impacting nurses and their families during the first half of the Twentieth Century.

At the conclusion of the inter-institutional project, �Ӱ�ԭ�� undergraduate students and grade 10 history students came together to present a documentary and infographics on nursing profiles with reflections. Selected student work will be posted on the  website, an initiative resulting from a partnership between the history departments of the University of Ottawa and �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. Recipro is made possible thanks to a Shared Online Projects Initiative (SOPI) grant from the vice-provosts of both institutions.

Learning Outcomes and Competencies:

• Demonstrate basic archival knowledge by researching & analyzing nursing files;
• Students will learn and use archival research tools and develop as an independent researcher by watching and recording historical research, and contributing to the construction of a database for other researchers;
• Practice the collaborative nature of knowledge and good ways to work collaboratively, by working in groups;
• Demonstrate critical thinking, ability to reflect with content, discipline-specific knowledge, and diversity & intercultural awareness when completing the project;
• Make links between sociology and other disciplines; and
• Show sensitivity to ethical issues in the family and of historical work.

Student from the Gr. 10 History class at Glebe Collegiate Institute. Nursing Sisters’ Documentary.

Jacob, a student enrolled in my 2nd year class summed up the process:

For Jacob this was more than a project, it was an exploration into the nursing profession where family connections, travel, morbidity, tragedy, and death were uncovered; it is a piece of Canadian history.

Reflections from our community partner

To view some of the projects, please click here, here, and here.

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Dr. Tonya Davidson and Olivia Little, a third-year sociology student minoring in film, were successful in receiving funding through the Students as Partners Program (SaPP). Together, Tonya and Olivia will work on developing a supplementary SOCI 1001/SOCI 1002 syllabus that will feature the work of the faculty of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

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Dr. Phillip Primeau and Kiran Niet, a first-year student in Global and International Studies, were successful in receiving funding through the Students as Partners Program (SaPP). Together, Phillip and Kiran will be working on issues in the field of popular culture and digital media, building ‘Media Toolkits’ that can be reused in other courses interested in exploring the histories of particular popular culture artefacts.

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Sociology graduate students Jaclyn Tompalski and Shelby Deane discussed Indigenous justice practices with Grade 10 Civics students. The two gave a lesson on transformative justice last Friday to the class at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School in Kanata. They developed the lesson module as part of a team project with graduate student colleagues Emily Monchamp, Emma Leger, and Hijaab Yayaa for the Sociology grad seminar Transforming the Criminal Legal System led by Professor Aaron Doyle. The team are working to make the lesson module available to teachers throughout the Ottawa �Ӱ�ԭ�� District School Board.

Thanks to Sociology PhD student Jon Cappello, who is Vice Principal at AY Jackson for arranging the class visit, and to Contract Instructor Kathleen Moss for previously inviting the team to rehearse the lesson in her third year Teaching Sociology to High School Students class.

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